Using KDE's clock instead of XFCE's clock

[Sergey Manucharyan]

Hi folks,

I have better idea - just to implement such a feature in the XFCE clock
- elegantly and easy :)

Sergey.

On Mon, 17 Apr 2006 17:58:08 +0200
Mateusz Łoskot <mateusz at loskot.net> wrote:

> Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > On 4/17/06, Mateusz Łoskot <mateusz at loskot.net> wrote:
> >> Dotan Cohen wrote:
> >>> Is it possible to use KDE's clock instead of XFCE's clock? KDE's
> >>> clock has the 'fuzzy logic' setting whereby instead of reading
> >>> "15:30" it reads "Half Past Three". I really, really like that.
> >> So, why not to use KDE?
> >>
> >> Cheers
> > 
> > Because I discovered that my machine can run fast!
> 
> OK, I understand it. But running KDE clock will require to load KDE
> libs and other dependencies what will slow your machine down again.
> I think it does not make much sens to use light WM and bloat it with
> heavy features from "big" desktops - when you want to have it fast, of
> course. Similarly, like running Nautilus with XFCE :-)
> 
> > KDE is great and all, but my 256 RAM machine was getting too slow
> > for me. I found XFCE on google and it does make a noticable speed
> > difference- Firefox launches before the coffee is ready now! But if
> > I could re-enable some of the functionality that I like then I would
> > want to do that.
> 
> If you re-enable KDE features you will have KDE back,
> but made with XFCE.
> 
> Just my 5 cents, if you don't mind.
> 
> Cheers